Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-28
DIR. HAWTHORNE.
Hsprcnounsss This and ether Publications
About Him villsinous" Attacks
Will xsply IN Pull 70 AL.
ArroS, Va, August 90, 1887.
the Editor of the Dispatch:

ArroN, Va, August 20, 1887.
To the Editor of the Dispatch:
have Just seen your paper OF yes
terday containing . communication
from some unknown correspondent in
Atlanta. Ny reply to him and other
paid slanderers in the service OF the
doggery-kcepers will appear next week
in the Augusta Chronicle. / trust that,
in justice to me, you will publish it.
The communication of your CORE
spondent is o mean, malicious, coward
" falsehood. / have never seen Joseph
Cook i have never had in my posses
sion any book Of his. remember see-
ing some years ago, in bookstore. n
volume Of his lectures, which merely
glanced at. I heard that q certain
individual in Atlanta had accused
mo Of getting sermon ont Of
"Fairburn's Studies in the Life Of
Christ" In less than three hours from
the time ] received the information l
laid the whole matter before twelve pro-
minent and reliable gentlemen OF the
city. They took Fairburn's book, my
sermon in manuscript, and the steno-
grapher's report of it in the Atlanta
Constitution, and compared them,
line with line." have their conclu-
sion in writing, signed by every one OF
them. They said "there is no founda-
ton for the charge" My Augusta
speech contains not one word OF
anything that Sam Jones ever said
or wrote. 1t contains not one
line from DR.. Strong's book, or from
any other source, for which credit has
not been given. ] copied certain state
ments of fact from "Our Country" in
reference to immigration and Social
ism, and upon them based an argu-
ment to show how prohibition would
keep Socialism out of Georgia. / did
not mention DR.. Strong's name, for
reasons which will appear in my letter
to the Augusta Chronicle. 1 alluded
to him as zone OF the calmest and most
conservative thinkers on this continent. I"
! read the quotations from manuscript
before me, and paused more than once
to say that they were the statements Of
distinguished specialist. The Chroni-
Gle published only that part of my
speech which was in writing. In my
manuscript every statement taken from
DIR. Strong's book is in quotation marks.
l used his trite allusion to Napoleon and
the Pyramids, but put it in as quota
ton. These quotation marks appear in
the Chronicles report of my speech,
except in two or three trivial
instances. An anonymous CORE
spondent of the Chronicle charged me
with stealing" my speech from DR..
Strong's book. AS the shortest method
OF refuting his base SANDER l referred
the matter to DIR. Strong himself. 1
received from him the following let
ter:
"Dear Brother Accept my thanks
for the compliment you have paid my
words by stealing them. The little
book was intended for use.
81 trust l may meet you and many
other clergymen from the South at the
conference in Washington which the
Evangelical Alliance is to call for the
first week of December next.
"Yours sincerely,
"JosIAH STRONG"
Every thoughtful man knows the
meaning of these villainous attacks.
They are efforts to break the force OF
my speeches against the business OF the
doggery-keepers. Any Georgia Prohi-
bitionist will tell you that they have
made me thousands of ardent friends
and greatly strengthened the cause Of
truth and righteousness.
j. b. HAWTHORNE.